Quality Engineer Manager

H & T Kansas • De Soto, KS

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About The Position

As a Quality Engineering Manager, you own and provide strategic and operational leadership for the facility’s quality management system, ensuring all products consistently meet customer, regulatory, and certification requirements. You are accountable for the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of ISO 9001 and IATF-compliant quality systems, directly influencing product integrity, customer satisfaction, and operational performance. Leading and mentoring the quality leadership team, supervisors, and technical staff, you align quality objectives with business goals while driving accountability, capability development, and a strong quality culture across the organization. Through data-driven decision-making, advanced problem-solving, and cross-functional collaboration, you reduce risk, eliminate defects, and improve process capability. You serve as the primary interface for customers, registrars, and regulatory bodies, overseeing audits, managing escalations, and ensuring timely and effective corrective actions that sustain compliance, operational excellence, and long-term business success.

Your Key Areas of Impact
Quality Engineering Leadership & Strategy: Leveraging extensive experience in high-volume manufacturing environments and ISO 9001 and IATF standards, you establish the technical direction and execution model for quality engineering across the facility, ensuring alignment with manufacturing strategy and business objectives. Your leadership strengthens technical capability, clarifies accountability, accelerates decision-making, and drives consistent execution of quality priorities, resulting in reduced quality escapes, faster issue resolution, and stronger overall quality performance.

Product & Process Quality Engineering: You lead the application of quality engineering tools such as SPC, PFMEA, DFMEA (as applicable), control plans, APQP, and PPAP to ensure quality is built into product and process design. Your work improves process robustness, reduces launch and change-related risk, and prevents defects at the source, leading to higher first-pass yield, improved process capability, and more stable production.

Continuous Improvement & Problem Solving: You drive disciplined root cause analysis, statistical methods, and corrective and preventive actions to eliminate chronic issues and variation. Your impact is measured through sustained reductions in scrap, rework, customer complaints, and cost of poor quality, while embedding a culture of structured, data-driven problem-solving across the organization.

Continuous Improvement & Advanced Problem Solving: Driving disciplined root cause analysis, statistical methods, and corrective and preventive actions, you eliminate chronic issues and variation. Your impact is measured through sustained reductions in scrap, rework, customer complaints, and cost of poor quality, while embedding a culture of structured, data-driven problem-solving across the organization.

Customer & Stakeholder Engagement: Serving as the primary quality representative for customers, you lead responses to customer complaints, audits, and scorecards while ensuring effective containment, root cause identification, and corrective action implementation. Your ability to communicate clearly and professionally builds trust, strengthens customer relationships, and reinforces confidence in the organization’s quality performance.

Quality Systems & Compliance Support: You support and reinforce ISO 9001 and IATF compliance through risk-based thinking, technical audits, and effective corrective action closure. Your contribution ensures that quality systems are practical, engineering-driven, and audit-ready, reducing compliance risk while enabling continuous improvement rather than administrative burden.

Metrics, Analytics & Performance Management: Using strong analytical skills and data-driven insights, you define, monitor, and communicate meaningful quality engineering metrics related to defects, process capability, customer performance, and systemic risk. By translating complex data into actionable insights, you enable informed leadership decisions, sharpen focus on the highest-impact issues, and drive measurable improvements in quality and operational performance.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university in Quality Management, Engineering, or a related technical field
• At least seven (7) years of progressive experience in quality leadership roles within a manufacturing environment, including direct experience with ISO 9001 and IATF standards
• A minimum of ten (10) years of relevant quality leadership, operations, or engineering experience is required
• Demonstrate high levels of integrity, professionalism, organization, and confidentiality
• Possess strong leadership, communication, and change-management skills
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications and experienced with quality systems, data analysis tools, and manufacturing quality technologies

Nice To Haves

• Certifications such as ASQ (CQE, CQM/OE) or equivalent

Responsibilities

• Own and provide strategic and operational leadership for the facility’s quality management system
• Accountable for the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of ISO 9001 and IATF-compliant quality systems
• Leading and mentoring the quality leadership team, supervisors, and technical staff
• Reduce risk, eliminate defects, and improve process capability
• Serve as the primary interface for customers, registrars, and regulatory bodies
• Overseeing audits, managing escalations, and ensuring timely and effective corrective actions
• Establish the technical direction and execution model for quality engineering across the facility
• Lead the application of quality engineering tools such as SPC, PFMEA, DFMEA (as applicable), control plans, APQP, and PPAP
• Drive disciplined root cause analysis, statistical methods, and corrective and preventive actions
• Lead responses to customer complaints, audits, and scorecards
• Support and reinforce ISO 9001 and IATF compliance
• Define, monitor, and communicate meaningful quality engineering metrics

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager